Re: 302 redirects and SEO

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:44:51 +0000, John Smith <user (AT) example (DOT) net>
wrote:

Hi

I work for a company that, due to historical reasons, stores each
website in a subfolder of the website root folder, and has the index.asp
in the root redirect the visitor to the index page in the subfolder. The
redirect script looks like this:

%
Response.Redirect("/CustomerName/index.asp")
Response.End()
%

So, if you go to www.company.co.uk, the URL will become
www.company.co.uk/company/index.asp

This shows up as a 302 redirect in the logs.

My question is, is this likely to be having a detrimental effect on the
search engine placement of these sites? How do the major search engines,
especially Google and MSN, treat 302 redirects?

Thanks

Hi
If the move is permanent, then you should be using 301 and not 302
redirects. 302's are used if it is a temporary change.

hth
plh
Paul


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